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The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas. Today it refers to hijacking a piece of legislation.A WAY WITH WORDS
The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas. Today it refers to hijacking a piece of legislation. Plus, the language of yoga teachers: When doing a guided meditation, you may hear your instructor speaking in a kind of continuous present, with phrases like read more »A WAY WITH WORDS
Whether you’re a native speaker or a learner of English, we can learn from each other. To get your language question or story on the air: In the US and Canada, call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free with your language questions at any time. From elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443, for which charges may apply.; Send a text/SMS to +1 (619) 567-9673, for which charges may apply.A WAY WITH WORDS
The handy German neologism Impfneid literally means “vaccine envy.” It’s one of many German words coined during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neid in German means “envy” and Impf, meaning “vaccine,” derives from the horticultural metaphor of grafting part of one plant onto another.The same idea informs our word inoculate, from Latin oculus, “eye,” the source of English ocular,or
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Mike from St. Augustine, Florida, wants to know about a family expression quicker than Goody’s moose.It’s actually a variation of “quicker than Moody’s goose,” which in turn comes from a 19th Irish saying involving a “Mooney’s goose.”A WAY WITH WORDS
put a nickel in someone v. phr. to provoke a person to excitement or talkativeness; to rile or anger someone; to cause someone to act. Also put a quarter in someone and, rarely, put a dime in someone.Etymological Note: From comparison of a person to a coin-operated machine or toy. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)A WAY WITH WORDS
tulies n.pl.—Gloss: the boondocks or the middle of nowhere.Note: Out in the tules/tules means “out in the boondocks” or “far away.” Encarta says that “to be in deep tules” is a Hispanic English expression meaning “to be in trouble with the law.” Another spelling is “tules,” plural form of “tule,” pronounced TOO-lee, which is a type of Californian bulrush and theA WAY WITH WORDS
Great Barbecue n.— «The federal injunction to speed up the drilling on public lands is reminiscent of the federal government’s massive land giveaways to railway corporations as an incentive for building the Transcontinental Railway in the 1860s.A WAY WITH WORDS
A Madison, Wisconsin, caller says his father will eat an apple down to the core, then call out “Apple core, Baltimore! Who’s your friend?” and if the person doesn’t answer fast enough, his dad will throw the core at him.A WAY WITH WORDS
The saying “I don’t chew my cabbage twice,” means I’m not going to repeat myself. The ancient Romans, by the way, ate cabbage as a protection against hangovers, but detested the smell of twice-cooked cabbage. This is part of a complete episode.A WAY WITH WORDS
The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas. Today it refers to hijacking a piece of legislation.A WAY WITH WORDS
The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas. Today it refers to hijacking a piece of legislation. Plus, the language of yoga teachers: When doing a guided meditation, you may hear your instructor speaking in a kind of continuous present, with phrases like read more »A WAY WITH WORDS
Whether you’re a native speaker or a learner of English, we can learn from each other. To get your language question or story on the air: In the US and Canada, call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free with your language questions at any time. From elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443, for which charges may apply.; Send a text/SMS to +1 (619) 567-9673, for which charges may apply.A WAY WITH WORDS
The handy German neologism Impfneid literally means “vaccine envy.” It’s one of many German words coined during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neid in German means “envy” and Impf, meaning “vaccine,” derives from the horticultural metaphor of grafting part of one plant onto another.The same idea informs our word inoculate, from Latin oculus, “eye,” the source of English ocular,or
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Mike from St. Augustine, Florida, wants to know about a family expression quicker than Goody’s moose.It’s actually a variation of “quicker than Moody’s goose,” which in turn comes from a 19th Irish saying involving a “Mooney’s goose.”A WAY WITH WORDS
put a nickel in someone v. phr. to provoke a person to excitement or talkativeness; to rile or anger someone; to cause someone to act. Also put a quarter in someone and, rarely, put a dime in someone.Etymological Note: From comparison of a person to a coin-operated machine or toy. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)A WAY WITH WORDS
tulies n.pl.—Gloss: the boondocks or the middle of nowhere.Note: Out in the tules/tules means “out in the boondocks” or “far away.” Encarta says that “to be in deep tules” is a Hispanic English expression meaning “to be in trouble with the law.” Another spelling is “tules,” plural form of “tule,” pronounced TOO-lee, which is a type of Californian bulrush and theA WAY WITH WORDS
Great Barbecue n.— «The federal injunction to speed up the drilling on public lands is reminiscent of the federal government’s massive land giveaways to railway corporations as an incentive for building the Transcontinental Railway in the 1860s.A WAY WITH WORDS
A Madison, Wisconsin, caller says his father will eat an apple down to the core, then call out “Apple core, Baltimore! Who’s your friend?” and if the person doesn’t answer fast enough, his dad will throw the core at him.A WAY WITH WORDS
The saying “I don’t chew my cabbage twice,” means I’m not going to repeat myself. The ancient Romans, by the way, ate cabbage as a protection against hangovers, but detested the smell of twice-cooked cabbage. This is part of a complete episode.A WAY WITH WORDS
A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively hour-long public radio show and podcast about language examined through history, culture, and family. Each week, author/journalist Martha Barnette and lexicographer/linguist Grant Barrett talk with callers about slang, old sayings, new words, grammar, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing well.A WAY WITH WORDS
Love Bites (episode #1569) 05/17/2021: The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas.Today it refers to hijacking Lasagna Hog (episode #1568) 05/04/2021: Understanding the varieties of conversational styles can mean the difference between feeling you're understood andbeing insulted.
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Cool Beans (episode #1570) 05/31/2021: If you speak a second or third language, you may remember the first time you dreamed in that new tongue.But does this milestone mean Love Bites (episode #1569) 05/17/2021: The word filibuster has a long and colorful history, going back to the days when pirates roamed the high seas.Today it refers tohijacking
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As a noun, respair means “the return of hope after a period of despair.” As a verb, respair means “to have hope again.” Although both forms are rare and obsolete, they seem ripe for reviving. Respair is among dozens of uplifting terms collected in Paul Anthony Jones’s new book The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times. (Bookshop|Amazon) Other heartening words includeA WAY WITH WORDS
“You look like the wreck of the Hesperus!” It means you look “disheveled, ragged, dirty, hung over, or otherwise less than your best.” It may sound like an odd phrase, but it made perfect sense to generations of schoolchildren familiar with this Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about a ship in a storm-tossed sea.A WAY WITH WORDS
blow a hoolie v. phr. (of weather) to storm; to forcefully gust, blow, and rain.Editorial Note: The stand-alone hoolie ‘a severe storm’ is rare outside of the blow a hoolie construction. It is sometimes spelled hooley.Etymological Note: Perhaps connected to hooley defined by Jonathon Green’s Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang as “a rip-roaring party” and marked as originally IrishA WAY WITH WORDS
You ain’t just whistling Dixie, and that’s the truth! Whistling Dixie, which refers to a studied carelessness, comes from the song that originated in minstrel shows and from which the South takes its nickname. But if you say someone ain’t just whistling Dixie, it means they’re not kidding around.This is part of a complete episode.A WAY WITH WORDS
All aboard! This week, a bit about the musical language of railroad conductors’ calls: “Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu-ca-monga!” Also, the origin of the military slang term cumshaw, tips for learning Latin, the influence of Spanish immigrants on English, and the funny story behind why plain-talking Texans say, “We’re going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.”A WAY WITH WORDS
Why do some folks call the toilet a commode?At one point in history, the commode was a piece of furniture you’d put a chamberpot in. Today, commode is still a common term heard in the American South. Elsewhere, the term commode denotes a kind of cabinet, causing confusion when journalists mistook reports of Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham taking a bribe in the form of a HYPHEN BEFORE "SPECIFIC"? You are completely correct that both are adjectives. Grammatically, English makes a few distinctions when adjectives are used as predicates. Hyphenation is one of those distinctions: compound adjectives are generally not hypenated when used as predicates.A Way with Words
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